No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell: The Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado County, Texas, 1871-1911 (Texas Local, Band 1) - Hardcover

Kearney, James C.; Stein, Bill; Smallwood, James

 
9781574416503: No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell: The Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado County, Texas, 1871-1911 (Texas Local, Band 1)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1574416502 ISBN 13: 9781574416503
Verlag: University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Two family names have come to be associated with the violence that plagued Colorado County, Texas, for decades after the end of the Civil War: the Townsends and the Staffords. Both prominent families amassed wealth and achieved status, but it was their resolve to hold on to both, by whatever means necessary, including extra-legal means, that sparked the feud. Elected office was one of the paths to success, but more important was control of the sheriff’s office, which gave one a decided advantage should the threat of gun violence arise.

No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell concentrates on those individual acts of private justice associated with the Stafford and Townsend families. It began with an 1871 shootout in Columbus, followed by the deaths of the Stafford brothers in 1890. The second phase blossomed after 1898 with the assassination of Larkin Hope, and concluded in 1911 with the violent deaths of Marion Hope, Jim Townsend, and Will Clements, all in the space of one month.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JAMES C. KEARNEY currently teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. He is the author of Nassau Plantation; co-editor of Journey to Texas, 1833; and translator and editor of Friedrichsburg: The Colony of the German Fürstenverein. BILL STEIN was director and archivist at the Nesbitt Memorial Library in Columbus. JAMES SMALLWOOD was professor of history at Oklahoma State University and the author of more than twenty books on Texas history.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1574416502
ISBN 13 
9781574416503
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
287
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9781574417111: No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell: The Stafford-townsend Feud of Colorado County, Texas, 1871-1911 (Texas Local, Band 1)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  1574417118 ISBN 13:  9781574417111
Verlag: University of North Texas Press,..., 2018
Softcover